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Late update due to big news

Ok so it's the 12th December and I've not put a single post on for the month, I'll admit that it's just not good enough for a Christmas music blog.... but I have a very valid excuse. I spent the first week of December in Iceland with Miss xmassongblog where she agreed to sometime soon become Mrs xmassongblog. So since then I have been busy with family cooing over a ring, you know the sort of the thing. Anyways tonight I have an evening off whilst she meets family so here we go.

Firstly Amazon updated their Indie for the Holidays playlist with a bunch of new songs. There's a Dandy Warhols cover of Silver Bells which is rather good but the stand out track is Tennis doing a cover of the National Lampoon's vacation song "Holiday Road" Tennis are probably a bit for this blog we usually leave the properly alternative stuff to the excellent Christmas Underground and Cutting Edge of Christmas. Check them out after checking out the cover below.

Then there's also a new Low Christmas single. Being the band that released the all time greatest Christmas song ever this new song has some high standards to live up to. It's called Some Hearts (at christmas Time) and it's a nice song just not them at their brilliant best. It's out on sub pop have a listen and let me know what you think.

Finally for this post Michael Angelakos is the lead singer of Passion Pit. He releases Merry Christmas Mr Fields OST next week and has headed it up with "Stained Glass Window" a rather lovely Holiday ballad, recognisably him but completely different to the usual Passion Pit sound. It's unclear what the actual project is whether it's an actual film, TV show or just a collection of videos to Angelakos' songs. Either way have a try of that lead single below and I'll be back to check out the full album and to post more regularly from here on in.... I promise.

This is where we run down the two coolest Christmas songs in the world each year as new artists appear and old artist become less exciting. It's all my opinion but it's my blog so yeah, deal with it. Check out last years post to see how things have changed.

10. They released a great album this year, so at 10 it's Scottish miserablists Frightened Rabbit.

9. No new music from them this year but consensus album of the year contenders with their past two.

8 Low - Just Like ChristmasStill the best Christmas song ever if you ask me. They released a new Christmas song this year but nothing to match this majesty. WikipediaAmazon

7 CHVRCHES were number 1 last year but with no new music they drift down to 7 this year.

6 The Sun Kil Moonsinger has been a shoe in for end of year lists for a few years now. For a Christmas song fan however this is the piancle.

5 This was released after we compiled last years list. Whilst we still await the first new album since they reformed we shall make do…

I'm off to Iceland for a holiday for the next fortnight. So whilst I usually wait until December has started to send off my playlist, this year I'm going early. 20 of the coolest Christmas songs. If you don't already know it's not necessarily the best Christmas songs from this year, it's just a CDs worth of music for me to share with my friends in preference to a boring Christmas card. Let me know what you like and what you don't in the comment section or by the twitters @xmassongblogOf course if there's another song you think we might like then drop us a line about that too.

Anyways onto this years selections.Xmas Time Of the Year - Green Day I Don’t Wanna Wait Til Christmas - Summer Camp Xmas for the Jews - Rogue Wave Angels We Have Heard On High - Sufjan Stevens Christmas Will Break Your Heart - LCD Soundsystem The Christmas Waltz -Lisa Hannigan Do You Hear What I Hear - Mark Kozelek Dirt Sledding - The Killers Alone on Christmas Day - Phoenix Last Christmas On Pl…